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Of all the people who make up a movie production unit, the cameraman is the only one who can call himself a free soul.

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The star system has us making pictures with personalities rather than stories, sacrificing everything in order to keep some old bags playing young women.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Gregg Toland

Gregg Toland
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Born: May 29, 1904
Died: September 28, 1948 (aged 44)
Bio: Gregg Toland, A.S.C. was an American cinematographer noted for his innovative use of lighting and techniques such as deep focus, examples of which can be found in his work on Orson Welles's Citizen Kane and John Ford's The Long Voyage Home.
Known for:
  1. Citizen Kane (1941)
  2. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
  3. Wuthering Heights (1939)
  4. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  5. The Long Voyage Home (1940)

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